Here are the patches btw.
For reddit-migration: https://kbin.social/m/DataDumps/t/65055/reddit-migration-patch
And for the pushshift scripts: https://kbin.social/m/DataDumps/t/65054/pushdump-patch
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Even if you’ve deleted your posts or account, these might be soft deletions. So you should still consider applying under GDPR, as this will remove all of your data from their serves permanently. It would be interesting to make a data request to see what are still on their serves after you've deleted your own information. I'd be keen to see that.
“How to Delete your Reddit Account and All Data under GDPR/CCPA” https://thomashunter.name/posts/2023-06-19-how-to-delete-reddit-account-gdpr-ccpa
Here’s a template letter of how to do so. You must request your data or the deletion of you data using the correct legal framework (quoting the correct legislation) and these templates make this easy. Plus they cover more types of data than just your posts and comments. https://www.datarequests.org/sample-letters/
Aaaaand they’re restored. They’re all restored.
I just did a quick spot check. None of mine have come back (yet). That said, reddit did decide out of the blue to permaban me for no clear reason - so likely they didn't want any of my stuff to begin with. YMMV.
One sub went dark before I could overwrite everything from there. Trying to decide if I should wait for them to come back and finish the wipe or if I should just bite the bullet and delete now. Could use your advice here.
I’d recommend retaining access to your account for now. I deleted mine and now have no recourse to go back and re-delete the comments they restored.
I wonder, does a GDPR/CCPA request do the job? If you need to wipe content after your account is deleted.
I submitted one under CCPA last week and haven’t gotten a response yet. :-/
Have a timeline tracker thread up now, https://kbin.social/m/RedditMigration/t/50981/Reddit-Data-Retrieval-Request-timeline-thread
Unfortunately, not one person who posted there has gotten a reponsse yet either.
That’s for getting a copy of your data, not a request for deleting your data. I did receive both data requests for my former accounts within a few days.
Hmm.. when did you do this and what was the exact timeline? I heard someone else who did it April 30 of this year got it in four hours. Maybe it was because of the timing.
Everyone who's trying to get their data now seems to be waiting a lot longer.
Also wondering if we should be starting a separate timeline tracker for GDPR/CCPA deletion requests.
I don’t remember the exact dates unfortunately. The first account was probably the day of the AMA and I received the download within a few days (Monday?).
The second account was longer, I requested it maybe a day or two after the AMA and didn’t receive it until today. I think they’re getting a lot of them now.
Cool. I think we can estimate the timeline then as Fri 9 June -> Mon 12 June for the first (next business day) and June 13 to June 20, which is exactly one week. With your permission I'd like to include this on the other timeline thread.
My wait time for my one account has been much longer. Still no response yet, I might end up deleting it before the response comes in.
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The sub I was waiting on finally reopened into restricted mode! All comments and posts are now deleted, and finally deleted the account as well! Feels good to be free.